WW, I'd go to Nauck's Vintage Records at http://www.78rpm.com/. They deal in 78s and only 78s. They will give you a quote if you email them. This is their business and I would expect that their opinion is a pretty good starting point.

pogo wrote:WW, I'd go to Nauck's Vintage Records at http://www.78rpm.com/. They deal in 78s and only 78s. They will give you a quote if you email them. This is their business and I would expect that their opinion is a pretty good starting point.

WW, simply because of their AGE and if the collection is even mostly complete, they're like 1903 St. Guadin's $20 Gold Eagles (worth 1000 times their bullion weight today). I have less than 1/3 of three Caruso Victola "Albums" of a dozen 78's each. If I had any of the sets "filled out" I wouldn't have to worry about money for the next decade or so. It's like have a dozen Hummel figures vs: having #'s 12-23 consecutively. The former might be worth $120 tops, the latter $200,000 and up.

If they do not want to heed your advice and put them up at the yard sell, offer them a few dollers more the the best offer at that sale or send a dummy buyer there to buy the lot and then you know what to do

WW, we finally got a little break from the heat, but it's still dry. My last back injections didn't agree with me so well. This one kicked my rear-end around the block and back, so I've been running real slow for the last month.
Have you seen the new NFL commercial with the Dual 1215 (I think) on a tapered United Audio plinth? I'm still not sure what the ad is about, but the Dual is playing opera! I like my feetsball, but trying to check-out the TT is a higher priority? Sick man, sick.

LPfan wrote:Wordwizard...If they do not want to heed your advice and put them up at the yard sell, offer them a few dollers more the the best offer at that sale or send a dummy buyer there to buy the lot and then you know what to do Regards,LPfan

Hey Whitney, sorry to hear about your back, that can sure slow you down in a hurry...

Re the commercial; I wouldn't know, I don't follow hockey so....

One thing I remember fondly about selling 1215s; we had a tilting base where we would set a record playing and then start tilting the 1215 up to about a 30° incline and it would continue to track flawlessly.